Ten enterable buildings of an old Japanese mountain village: the headman's thatched farmhouse, a white-plastered rice storehouse, a water mill hut on its channel, a small hot-spring inn, a thatched tea house with its waiting arbour, the village general store, a net shed on the lake shore, the temple with its priest's house and bell tower, a timber primary school with a gym, and a potter's workshop with a brick kiln. Each one is laid out the way these places were really used (earth-floored doma with the cooking range next to the raised board room and its sunken hearth, four tatami rooms in a square behind sliding screens, the shopkeeper's tatami room right behind the counter, separate dressing rooms in front of the inn baths), furnished, lit and ready to walk through.

Buildings

• Shoya Farmhouse: thatched hip-and-gable roof over an open timber frame: big earth-floored doma with the cooking range, sink and rice bales, raised board room with a sunken hearth, four tatami rooms in a square (reception room, best room with alcove and family altar, two sleeping rooms), veranda along the garden, toilet, washroom and bath at the back
• Dozo Rice Storehouse: two storeys behind white plaster and a tiled base: rice bales, chests, jars and barrels on the ground floor, steep timber stair, loft under the open roof timbers with lacquer boxes, chests and folded screens
• Water Mill Hut: one earth-floored room beside the channel: wheel on the outside wall, trip-hammer pestles over sunk mortars, hand millstone, sacks, sieves and measuring boxes, open thatch roof
• Valley Onsen Inn: two storeys: genkan with shoe lockers, lobby and front desk with the office behind, tatami dining hall, kitchen, staff room, public toilets, men's and women's baths each with a dressing room and a rock bath outside; guest rooms upstairs
• Soan Tea House: small entrance, six-mat waiting room, tea room with alcove and low crawl-in guest door, preparation room with shelf and sink, toilet; roofed waiting bench, stepping stones and stone basin in the garden
• Yorozuya General Store: shoes-on shop floor behind sliding glass doors with shelves, counter and drinks, the shopkeeper's tatami room one step up right behind it, earth-floored kitchen with the back door, toilet, washroom and bath
• Lakeside Net House: earth-floored net shed under an open roof with wide sliding doors, nets on pallets and gear boxes, a raised board room for mending nets by the brazier, lockable gear store; net and fish drying racks on the shore
• Village Temple: main hall with the worshippers' tatami hall, raised inner sanctuary with the altar platform and image cabinet, side rooms for memorial tablets; priest's house behind a corridor with office, reception room, kitchen, tatami rooms, bath and toilet; gate and bell tower
• Wooden Village School: single-loaded corridor along the north, classrooms with blackboards and teacher's platform facing the south yard, pupils' entrance with shoe lockers, staff room, store, toilets, and a double-height gym with vaulting boxes; iron bars in the yard
• Pottery Workshop: earth-floored workshop with wheels at the windows, wedging bench, clay bins, glaze buckets and ware racks; kiln room with a brick kiln and outside chimney; display room at the road, tatami room behind it, toilet

Features

• Every building fully enterable: furnished rooms, doors, stairs, lamps in every room
• Modular kit: 130 facade, door, stair, canopy and fence modules on a 1.5 m grid + 207 props
• Collision made for walking (box collision, 0.9 m+ doors, stair ramps), LODs, lightmap UVs
• 111 recolourable PBR materials (53 texture sets, 1K-2K), masked material for chain-link fences
• Demo map with every building, one level per building, kit overview map
• 6,226 - 66,042 triangles per building including furniture
• Unreal Engine 5.8 project, FBX (per module and pre-assembled buildings, UCX collision), Blender (Kit + linked Buildings)

All signs and names are invented; no real brands.

Technical details

• Number of unique meshes: 448
• Collision: yes, custom (box)
• LODs: yes (automatic, meshes above 300 triangles)
• Number of materials / material instances: 111 instances of 5 masters
• Number of textures: 159 (64 x 64 / 144 x 144 / 160 x 160 / 512 x 512 / 800 x 800 / 1024 x 1024 / 1200 x 1200 / 1360 x 1360 / 2048 x 2048)
• Texture formats: PNG
• Supported engine: Unreal Engine 5.8; FBX; Blender 5.2
• Scale: real-world (cm in Unreal)
• Files: JapaneseRuralVillage_UE58.zip 225 MB, JapaneseRuralVillage_FBX.zip 244 MB, JapaneseRuralVillage_Blender.zip 237 MB

Files on Getly

Downloads: Unreal Engine 5.8 project (open the .uproject or migrate the JapaneseRuralVillage folder), FBX + textures, Blender archive (Kit + linked Buildings). Documentation is in the root of every archive. No video yet.